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(No Model) A. MILLS. FASTENING FOR GARTRIDGE OR OTHER BELTS.

915. Patented Mar. 19, 1889.

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UNITED STATES PATENT ANSON MILLS, OF THE UNITED STATES ARMY.

FASTENING FOR CART RIDGE AND OTHER BELTS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 399,915, dated March 19, 1889.

Application filed December 15, 1888. serial No. 293,758. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, ANsON MILLS, of the United States Army, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Fastenings for Cartridge and other Belts or Bands, of which the following is a specification.

My invention is directed to furnishing a belt or band with an efficient, inexpensive, and easily applied and manipulated fastener. While applicable to belts and bands in general, it has been devised with more particular reference to the needs of cartridge-belts which are provided with thimbles or pockets for receiving the cartridge, and it is in this connection that I shall mainly describe it.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is aview of such a belt embodying my inven tion, the belt being extended. Fig. 2 is a perspective view of the belt as 1t would appear when worn around the waist. Fig. 3 is a View representing the manner in which my invention may be applied to a band unprovided with thimbles or pockets.

In Fig. 1 the bearing-sleeve of one of the fasteners is broken away sufficiently to eX pose the shank or stem of the fastener.

My invention is applicable to any cartridgebelt provided with pockets for cartridges, whether such belt is to be worn around the waist or on other parts of the person.

The particular belt which is illustrated in the drawings is one made in accordance with my patent, No. 236,059, of December 28, 1880 that is to say, a woven cartridge-belt composed of a double fabric woven with pockets on one thickness of the fabric which extends only partly across the fabric, leaving at each end a selvage composed of the full thickness of the double fabric. At each end of the belt is a bearing-sleeve, A, preferably made of sheet metal, which can be secured to the body of the belt by rivets a, as indicated on the right of Fig. l, or by eyelets I), as indicated on the left of Fig. 1, or by any other suitable means. In this sleeve is contained the stem or shank c of a double hook, which can be readily formed of a piece of wire orsinall inetallic rod having its ends, which project bevond the sleeve, bent toward each other, so as to form hooks cl, the extreme ends of these hooks being preferably bent or beveled outwardly a little in order to facilitate their entridges can be replaced.

gagement with the belt. The stem or shank c swivels in its bearing-sleeve, so that the double hook can readily turn to adapt itself to the position of the belt which it engages.

In applying the belt to the person it is put around the waist, for instance, with one of the ends overlapping the other, and each end is then secured in place by causing the hooks to catch over the opposite edges of the belt at the point between the two nearest contiguous thim bles or pockets, and in doing this it would be necessary to bend together the edges of the belt, which can be readily done if the cartridges in the thimbles between which the double hook comes are first removed. After the hook is engaged with the belt the car- Each end of the belt is thus secured as indicated in Fig. 2, and I prefer this in practice, although if the belt be of only sufficient length to go once around the person with a slight lapping of the ends it will be suffieient to provide but one end of the belt with a fastener such as described. In this arrangement it will be noted that the completed fastener consists of two members, the one member being the double hook and the other member being a rib or shoulder formed by the cartridge thimble or pocket, against which the double hook brings up when it is engaged with the belt. A manifest advantage of the arrangement is that the belt can be made of indefinite length-that is to say, it may be made to pass around the person more than oncethus providing a convenient method of carrying a very large number of cartridges. In Fig. 2 it is represented as passing around the waist about one and one-third times.

In case it be desired to apply the invention to a band either wholly unprovided with pockets or thimbles, or unprovided with such pockets at the point where the double hook is required to engage the body of the belt or band, an arrangement such as illustrated in Fig. 3 may be employed. In this instance the shoulder or rib against which the double hook bri n gs up when it embraces the opposite edges of the body of the belt or band is formed conveniently of two metallic studs, (1, which are eyeleted to the body of the band. Othermeans, of course, can be provided for this purpose, what isessential being that there should be a rib or shoulder upon the body of the belt or band against which the double hook can bringup.

Having described my invention and the manner best known tome of carrying the same into effect, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is as follows:

1. A belt or band having upon its body a transverse rib or shoulder provided at one or both ends with double hooks adapted to catch over and embrace the opposite edges of the body of the belt and to bring up against a rib or shoulder upon said body, substantially as set forth.

2. A belt having thimbles or pockets upon its body for the reception of cartridges, and provided at one or both ends with a double hook adapted to catch over and embrace the opposite edges of the body of the belt and to enter the space which separates contiguous pockets.

3. A belt having thinibles or pockets upon its body for the reception of cartridges, and provided at one or both ends with a swiveled double hook adapted to catch over and embrace the opposite edges of the body of the belt and to enter the space which separates contiguous pockets.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand this 8th day of December, 1888.

ANSON MILLS. Witnesses:

EWELL A. DICK, WILL E. AUGHINBAUGH. 

